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NHL - Hockey Trade Rumors, providing NHL Hockey Trade Rumors since 1996Mon, 20 Jul 2015 16:53:19 +0000hourly1By: 19Yzermanhttp://hockeytraderumors.com/free-agent-rumours/comment-page-2/#comment-106429
Thu, 28 Jul 2005 10:56:42 +0000http://localhost/wordpress24/?p=9766#comment-106429Oh!! Is that why he signed Lapointe to such a large contract? If Jacobs hates Michael Jackson for his interest in little boys perhasp he will get some himself. The Jacobs logic if you don’t like what they are doing then do it yourself.

1997 cup team salary was 35 mil

1998 was boosted up by the Carolina offer to holdout Federov of 17mill for ??years I think 4 but the catcher was the 10 mill bonus in that offer was if his team made the conf finals which was quite likely for him as a Red Wing and signing a few players in order to keep a team intact which was a tight knit group of winners.

In 2002 Ilitch without a question did spend a lot and won a cup by doing so. He may have done this because he knew it would be the last chance to do so with the up coming CBA CAP likelyhood. This should have been at least attempted by the B’s to get Bourque his cup with the B’s.

That is what the lockout was really about. controlling the owner spending habits and nothong more.

]]>By: PensFansRejoicehttp://hockeytraderumors.com/free-agent-rumours/comment-page-1/#comment-106428
Thu, 28 Jul 2005 02:29:40 +0000http://localhost/wordpress24/?p=9766#comment-106428Neidermayer is interested in going wherever the $ be. You wont hear a player agent say so-and-so wasnt interested in going to play for some specific team because that would close a door on them possibly getting their $ from that town. Id love to see Neidermayer in the burg as much as the next Pens fan, I just dont see it being fiscally possible for them to give him the 7-7.8 million he will want, especially when, in order for him to get the said 7.8 the pens would have to make thier payroll the max in order for it to = 20% of the teams total payroll (makes no sense to me either) especially when theyve stated their payroll wont go beyond 31-33 million for the season.

As for LaPointe, I see absotively no reason why the Pens would want him when they are looking to get faster and more skilled, not slower and unskilled…